Books: German Shorts

Of these eight short stories, three were included in Author
Feuchtwanger's lengthy novel, Success (1930); none was written later
than seven years ago. Though not hot off the griddle, they are
nevertheless served up with such neatness and dispatch that their taste
is still fresh. Exile Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Josephus)
thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home
in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my
manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other...